Maritime history

Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates.

Tall ships epitomize the glamour, majesty and romance of the sea.

The loss of the Costa Concordia in 2012 shocked Europe when thirty-two passengers died on a luxury liner.

From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.

This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919.

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The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers.

Captain James Cook's first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica.

Translated from the original manuscript in the Library of the University at Goettingen (Col.

Prior to the 13th century the horizons of Western Christians extended no further than the principalities of what is now European Russia and the Islamic powers of the near East.

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

Written by two World War II veterans who later became well-known war correspondents, this biography records the inspiring life of one of America's great naval heroes.

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades.

A revised edition of the First Edition Edited by Charles T.

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Translated, for the First Time, with Notes, a Preface, and an Introductory Life of Timour Beg.

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In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination.

Presenting the history of the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands from first colonization until the spread of European colonial rule in the later 19th century, this volume focuses specifically on Pacific Islander-European interactions from the perspective of Pacific Islanders themselves.

Translated, with Notes and an Introduction, and including Paolo Toscanelli's sailing directions in letters to Columbus, and documents relating to Sebastian Cabot.

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period.

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication.

A masterpiece of World War II heroism, this book catches the spirit and tone of an incredible fighting ship, the USS Aaron Ward, a destroyer-turned-minelayer on the radar picket lines in the Pacific.

Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941.

There are a few books on all naval weapon systems for all nations in the world.

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The latest edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.

This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion.

Few Americans know the history-changing story of the men of the USS Mason, the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat.

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield.

Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R.

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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world.

More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service's core values.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

Passamaquoddy Bay lies between Maine and New Brunswick at the mouth of the St.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.

New edition, with introduction and notes; for the previous edition, by Sir Clements Markham, see First Series 56 (1877).

A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping.

A biography chronicling one man’s service during World War II as a Royal Navy commander and his career before & after in the tea business.

Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government.

The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on the inland lakes of North America: the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

Mit der Lustreise zur See der AUGUSTA VICTORIA begann im Winter 1891 in Hamburg ein neues Kapitel des Reisens: die Kreuzfahrt.

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

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Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates.